Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.